Lord Byron Quotes
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Lord Byron
Quotes to Explore
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
J. P. Morgan
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
Vladimir Kramnik
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
Epictetus
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
Albert Einstein
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Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
Cory Booker
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
William Shakespeare
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
William Butler Yeats
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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Lord Byron
